He coordinated works between different entities so that if Enemalta wanted to dig up, say, Dingli Road in Rabat, he’d coordinate works with all entities to ensure it’s dug up once, to the benefit of the community, as well as the contractor who ends up doing work for different entities.

Remember this was the time Republic Street, Valletta was dug up and work went on smoothly without any untoward hiccups.

Then the PN came back in and things went fast downhill at Sa Maison, with PN architect candidates and mayors not even able to distinguish between cold asphalt and hot rolled tarmac, Masters degrees notwithstanding.

I am definitely not a PL apologist, but what’s right is right. And he did not have an office at Project House but a small office right outside it.

The best damage control is to pre-empt problems. However, that requires foresight, not hindsight.

Her statements are not intended to criticise Muscat’s flaky decisions and actions, but to reassure the increasing number of doubters among PL supporters and switchers that, despite adverse reactions in Malta and internationally, their Joseph will see them through at the end of the day, and blind faith is required as it was with Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt and into the land of milk and honey.

Marlene Farrugia is not a dissenter. She is a faithful disciple of Joseph Muscat, who is simply implementing a policy of damage control.

In 1996, soon after Sant’s election, this Frederick Azzopardi was parked in Project House, he introduced himself as ‘baghatni l-ministru’, that’s Charles Buhagiar. Honest.

He spent a good two months lazing around, until he proceeded to do his best to screw up all datum levels along Republic Street, cars leaving half their engine behind as they crossed down Melita Street.

Just don’t give him execution of the jetty or dredging Marsaxlokk Bay.

Spanish diplomacy.

I wonder how, in spite of this, JPO failed to be a successful Labour politician.

I have lived in a village all my life and I have never in any way felt restricted. On the contrary I feel very enlightened and still on track.

Don’t forget that Joseph Muscat knows how to hit below the belt, where it hurts. His words, not mine.

Oops! Struggling to keep up with the remarkably complicated lives of some of these people.

[Daphne – Marlene Farrugia does not have a husband. She has an ex husband (Pullicino Orlando). She has a lover (the health minister), unless you wish to call him a companion. Godfrey Farrugia is indeed a husband, but not Marlene’s husband. The fact that they have the same surname is a coincidence. She was born with it, as he was.]